As I looked around my house, I was astonished to realize that nearly everything was either a soundbar or Bluetooth-enabled. Around this time, my interest in Raspberry Pi was also growing, and I started envisioning replacing these 'smart' home speakers that were devouring my personal data, considerin...
"PostgreSQL PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record"
I am not a DBA; however, throughout my career, I have often been tasked with deploying several databases for production. I have experience deploying MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, and Oracle (with FRA). In production, I adhere to all the be...
I am a pretty early adopter of Virtualization, at least in the widespread context (around 2001). Primarily in the early days of VMware Workstation and VMware GSX/ESX. This area will be dedicated to all things enterprise, OS, Automation, Hypervisor, and Cloud.
"SSHFS allows you to mount a remote filesystem using SFTP. Most SSH servers support and enable this SFTP access by default, so SSHFS is very simple to use - there's nothing to do on the server-side."
Since I decided to publish a blog site, the biggest issue I faced was establishing my workflow. G...
Free ESXi is dead, long live Proxmox!
I have been using ESXi for a very long time. After the recent Broadcom buyout of VMware, I braced for the inevitable squeeze, this story is nothing new. Having attended a few VMware events in my career, I can say that I always thought VMware had a decent cultu...
Oracle Linux 9.3 Install NFS Server
When searching for documentation, I appreciate receiving just the commands without a lot of accompanying text. Sometimes, I need to quickly install shared storage for testing purposes. This snippet will be used in upcoming automations, but I figured I would just...
Recently, a friend of mine and I were both rebuilding our lab environments. He is using a dedicated server with with 64GB RAM and a solid CPU, and installed Proxmox as the OS/Hypervisor. My approach, as it seems it always has been, is to use Windows 11 with VMware Workstation to host the hypervisors...